Cheating: limits of individual integrity

Cheating is an issue with which most students deal in their school years. In this paper, college students who have taken a mid‐term exam in which cheating occurred are interviewed about their views of this incident. Their words reveal not only their individual responses and solutions to this dilemma, but also their views of what teachers can and could do. They also reveal the limitations of seeing the dilemma only in dichotomous terms, cheaters vs. non‐cheaters, teacher vs. students, or in terms of only individual responsibility.